Tapanese readers will be inclined to say tin queue to all this, especially to the charge of educating boys as mere money: makers, and E must' sdiit that there isa good deal of truth in their counter hearse. When argoing with Japanese on this subject I somethin s feel like an [tish fellow-countryman of mine who was convinced of his pure English accent utu a Jap wese pupil skel him one day with a puzz'el expression of countenance what he meant by that wont "fois! he used so
and Americans wre perfect y convine-d thet, frequently same way we Europeans iving the Japanese a splendid example of scorn fr mere filthy lucre, dis: interestd love of the high, t ¢ noble. thy sublime, ete, etc., ete., until we sud lenly discover that the Japanese. while modelling themselves exact y on tts (Leaving out and ornament and Sundry unnecessary nets) are rapidly becoming materislistic, Godless, money grabbing, and corrupt—are, in shor', falling beow the level they had reached before their adoption of Western civilisation, Miszivings by Home Statesmen.
Since this article was written a. remar} able e contribution has appeared in the "Jiji" fr the pen of Baron Iwasa In the is renowned fi apan, ug her marvellous progress during the last thirty years, has been toy much absorbed in opting the material sid" of Western tion" to the utter neglect of i's ritual side and is aly Leaving the me nous code of morals disregarded and in She has virtually reached, Luse the 1 of the "Japan times." the uttermost possible limit of her material progress considering the extent of ber resources, but this progress must be regarded ins on an extremely precarious foundation [t_may even be considered as being built on "ind while thy progress of the Western Powers is built. on bed rock. If he considers ths matter in chis way every faithful subject of Japan aus? be filed with grave perturbation about Japan's fature ad_miust e: nl-sour to the best of his abilility ty strengthen the basis of the present national prosper
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